Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email – indian sentiments divided due to HINDRAF
– Lingam-gate
– Cost of living increasing – foodstuff/toll/raw materials
– "Free" schooling fiasco
– Increase in crime rate statistics
– Nurin and Sharlinie cases
– Chua Soi Lek DVD
– FDI behind few other countries in ASEAN
– Growth rate also behind few countries in ASEAN
– corruption issues
– racist and/or sexist MPs
– PKFTZ scandal
– Mazu statue
– Mat Rempit
– use of ISA
– banning of Catholic buletin
– "close one eye" case
– BERSIH rally
– Bar Council walk
– 3 rallies planned before end of February
– Politician assassination
– umno youth condemning indian newspaper vendors
– no bonus for civil servants (yet)
– altantuniya case
– and many more (just in the last 6 months!)
Who in their right mind will call for election now?
maybe one who knows that:
– rakyat have no (better?) choice
– rakyat only worries on local issues – fix the road, put up a surau, give out angpow (land title/house key etc)
– rakyat easily forget
– selfish mentality of individual : as long as my wellbeing is taken care, I have no worries.
– minority votes won't affect the results.
so, when is it? PM refuses to tell 🙂
Pak Lah keeps ’em guessing on elections
MADRID: The guessing game is still on as Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi refuses to give any clues as to when he may call the coming general election.
“It can be between now and March and it can be between now and March 2009,” the Prime Minister said in reference to the Barisan Nasional mandate which will end in March next year. “I am thrilled to hear that everyone seems impatient for the general election,” he told reporters accompanying him on his visit to Spain.
Political parties have been in full gear anticipating the elections in March, with Barisan having conducted election dry runs in several states. Election pundits have been predicting the polling date as around early March as Abdullah has not made any overseas travel plans in February.
After attending the Alliance of Civilisations Forum here this week, the Prime Minister will travel to Davos to attend the World Economic Forum at the end of this month. He told a press conference late Monday that he would attend the Organisation of Islamic Conference summit in Senegal in March as he would be handing over the chairmanship to the host country.
Asked if the elections would be held before or after the OIC summit, Abdullah replied with a laugh: “I have not made any preparation for the general election.”
However, the Prime Minister said everyone should be prepared for the polls. “Whatever it is, you have to prepare. Normally, you still have one year, one year before we complete the mandate, it is a full year to prepare for election. That has been the way all these years.” The coming polls will be the country’s 12th general election.
